Frank Laukien

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Frank Laukien
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Frank H. Laukien, receiving award for Gunther Laukien, 2013
Born
Frank H. Laukien

1960
NationalityAmerican
EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard University
OccupationBusinessman
TitleChairman and CEO, Bruker
ParentGünther Laukien

Frank H. Laukien (born 1960 in Stuttgart, Germany) is a German-American scientist and entrepreneur, and president and CEO of Bruker Corporation since 2008.[1][2]

Early life

Frank Laukien is the son of Günther Laukien, the founder of Bruker.[3] His mother Dr. Rose Laukien was a German high-school (Gymnasium) teacher in German literature, English and History.[1] In 1984 he earned a bachelor's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in chemical physics from Harvard University in 1988.[4][1][5]

Career

In the 1990s, Laukien was a lecturer in NMR and mass spectrometry at the University of Bremen, Germany, and a part-time professor at the Institute of Mass Spectrometry of the University of Amsterdam, NL. He has previously served on the Dean’s Advisory Committee of the School of Science of MIT, and on the Board of the Analytical, Life Science & Diagnostics Association (ALDA),[6] including one year as chairman. In 2017, he has been elected a senator of acatech, the German natural science and engineering academy.[1][7]

Laukien owns 24% of Bruker.[3] As of October 2020, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$1.5 billion.[8][9]

Cancer Evolution

Laukien was the lead organizer of the Cancer & Evolution Symposium in Boston MA in October 2020.[10] This led to the formation of the AACR Cancer Evolution Working Group, of which Laukien is joint co-chair with Charles Swanton.

Publications

Active Biological Evolution, Frank H. Laukien, 2022 ISBN 978985414707

References

  1. ^ a b c d "D. Frank H. Laukien Biography". Bruker.com. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  2. ^ "Officer Profile | Quotes | Reuters.co.in". in.reuters.com. Retrieved 2020-10-09.[dead link]
  3. ^ a b "Billionaire Surfaces on Stock Surge of Scientific Device Maker". Bloomberg.com. 26 June 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2018 – via www.bloomberg.com.
  4. ^ "Forbes profile: Frank Laukien". Forbes. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  5. ^ "BRKR Company Profile & Executives - Bruker Corp. - Wall Street Journal". www.wsj.com. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  6. ^ "Frank H Laukien, Bruker Corp: Profile and Biography". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  7. ^ "Frank Laukien Bruker Physik GmbH". acatech - National Academy of Science and Engineering. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  8. ^ Peterson-Withorn, Chase. "Meet The World's 259 Newest Billionaires". forbes.com. Archived from the original on March 6, 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  9. ^ "Frank Laukien". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  10. ^ Heng, Julie; Heng, Henry H. (2021). "Two-phased evolution: Genome chaos-mediated information creation and maintenance". Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 165: 29–42. doi:10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2021.04.003. PMID 33992670. S2CID 234747385.